14 Facts About Ivar Lo-Johansson

Ivar Lo-Johansson was a Swedish writer of the proletarian school.

Ivar Lo-Johansson wrote over 50 proletarian novels and short-stories, all of which carried vivid portrayals of working-class people.

Ivar Lo-Johansson described the situation of the Swedish land-workers, statare, in his novels, short stories, and journalism, which encouraged the adoption of certain land reforms in Sweden.

Ivar Lo-Johansson caused much controversy with his features on old-age pensioners, gypsies, and other non-privileged people.

Ivar Lo-Johansson lived since 1934 in an apartment on Bastugatan in Stockholm, which shortly after his death in 1990 was turned into a museum.

Ivar Lo-Johansson first came to the literary fore in the mid-1930s with the publication of his novel Godnatt, jord and two short story collections.

Ivar Lo-Johansson's stories were infused with realistic and detailed depictions of the plight of landless Swedish peasants, known as statare.

Ivar Lo-Johansson's books combined political astuteness and literary craftsmanship to such a competent degree that they are regarded as the stimulant behind the labor movement that ultimately led to the abolition of indentured farm labor in 1945.

Ivar Lo-Johansson is best known for his memoirs, vivid recollections of the life in Swedish trade-unionist and literary circles of the twenties, thirties and forties.

Ivar Lo-Johansson continued throughout his long life to insist that literature should face the world from the under-dog's perspective.

Ivar Lo-Johansson's works are characterized by a vivid expression of individual human suffering.

Ivar Lo-Johansson explored the conflict between individualism and collectivism extensively in his autobiographical series of eight novels.

Ivar Lo-Johansson published the series in the 1950s beginning with Analfabeten.

Ivar Lo-Johansson published the last book in the series, Proletarforfattaren in 1960.